depressed fracture

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   fracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in

   Broaderfracture

Questions about depressed fracture

What does depressed fracture mean?

depressed fracture means "fracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in".

Is depressed fracture a common word?

depressed fracture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.